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The Female Force Awakens as Star Wars Has Four Strong Women Roles

The Bechdel Test is a far from perfect measurement of the accuracy and integrity of gender portrayal, as Alison Bechdel herself has admitted, but it’s one that has fi...

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Mumbai: 'No Gynaecs In Rural Areas To Provide Basic Delivery Services'

Mumbai: An audit carried out by the state government of all maternal deaths, including those during medical termination of pregnancy (MTPs), have found three main causes be...

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“Feminized Poverty”: Poverty A Woman’s Face?

Poverty has different connotations depending upon the circumstances under which we construe it. One such connotation is gender based poverty or feminized poverty. Feminizat...

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Recycling Unused Medicines To Save Money And Lives

It always troubled Deane Kirchner to throw away good medicine. When residents of the Lincoln Glen long-term facility in San Jose, Calif., where she is the director of nursi...

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Design Advance Could Mean Commercial Light-Based Processors Within A Few Years

A team of engineers from MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado have overcome a major barrier to light-based computers, offering a means to move beyond the increa...

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Mark Hamill Visits Great Ormond Street Hospital

Star Wars legend Mark Hamill visited patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) this week. Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the legendary films, was visibly moved ...

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Mark Hamill Visits Great Ormond Street Hospital

Star Wars legend Mark Hamill visited patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) this week. Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the legendary films, was visibly moved ...

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How Smart Animal Shelters Aim For ‘Zero Kill’

When Tracey Durning first met her dog, Fred, in an animal shelter in New York City in 1995, he looked underfed and was shaking uncontrollably. A five-year-old terrier mix w...

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The Human Incubator

Sometimes, the best way to progress isn’t to advance — to step up with more MONEY, more technology, more modernity. It’s to retreat. Towards the end of th...

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Retroscope: The Amazing Choir From Shillong

I schooled in the St. Joseph’s Convent on Bandra’s ​Hill Road. Opposite our school was the grand St.​Peter’s School. ​O​urs was strictly a girls&r...

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